File:Alice Dalton Brown Grand Westfield Porch, 1980.jpg

Painting by Alice Dalton Brown, Grand Westfield Porch (oil on linen, 54" x 138", 1980). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Alice Dalton Brown's career beginning in the late 1970s, when she produced large-scale realist paintings of New York Victorian houses that focused on the play of light, shadow, reflection, texture and geometry across diverse surfaces. Her early works in the series, included this work, were inspired by, and depicted various views of a particular house in Westfield, New York. This representative painting features a frontal, partial façade of irregular archways, slender columns and decorative carved screens seemingly dislocated by a trick of perspective that doubled as a study in geometric abstraction. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Alice Dalton Brown. Copyright held by the artist.

Alice Dalton Brown

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in Alice Dalton Brown's career beginning in the late 1970s: her large-scale, realist paintings of the exteriors of New York Victorian houses. They often focused on border or threshold spaces—gates, windows and porches that bridge inside and outside and allow an exploration of the play of light, shadow, reflection, texture and geometry across various surfaces. Thematically and formally, these contrasts various oppositions such as open and closed, public and private, soft and hard, solid or reflected, obscured and visible, movement and stasis, order and disorder, beauty and threat or chaos. These effects are enhanced by the absence of people and furniture from the scenes, which encourages viewers to occupy the spaces while imparting a sense of mystery. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this early stage and body of work, which brought Dalton Brown early recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and eventual museum acquisitions. Dalton Brown's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Alice Dalton Brown, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.